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| LECTURE VIII.—Blood and Lymph. | 189 |
| Change and replacement of the constituents of the blood. Fibrine. Lymph and its coagulation. Lymphatic exudation. Fibrinogenous substance. Formation of the buffy coat. Lymphatic blood, hyperinosis, phlogistic crasis. Local formation of fibrine. Transudation of fibrine. Formation of fibrine in the blood.—Colourless blood-corpuscles (lymph-corpuscles). Their increase in hyperinosis and hypinosis (Erysipelas, pseudoerysipelas, typhoid fever). Leucocytosis and leukaemia. Splenic and lymphatic leukaemia.—The spleen and lymphatic glands as blood-making organs. Structure of lymphatic glands. | |
| LECTURE IX.—Pyæmia and Leucocytosis. | 211 |
| Comparison between colourless blood- and pus-corpuscles. Physiological reabsorption of pus; incomplete (inspissation, cheesy transformation), and complete (fatty metamorphosis, or milky transformation). Intra vasation of pus.—Pus in the lymphatic vessels. Retention of matters in the lymphatic glands. Mechanical separation (filtration). Coloration by tattooing. Chemical separation (attraction): Cancer, Syphilis. Irritation of lymphatic glands, and its relation to leucocytosis.—Digestive and puerperal (physiological) leucocytosis. Pathological leucocytosis (Scrofulosis, typhoid fever, cancer, erysipelas).—Lymphoid apparatuses: solitary and Peyerian follicles of the intestines. Tonsils and follicles of the tongue. Thymus. Spleen.—Complete rejection of pyaemia as a dyscrasia susceptible of demonstration morphologically. | |
| LECTURE X.—Metastatical Dyscrasle. | 230 |
| Pyæmia and phlebitis. Thrombosis. Puriform softening of thrombi. True and false phlebitis. Purulent cysts of the heart.—Erabolia. Import of prolonged thrombi. Pulmonary metastases. Crumbling away of the emboli. Varying character of the metastases. Endocarditis and capillary embolia. Latent pyaemia.—Infectant fluids. Diseases of the lymphatic apparatuses and secreting organs. Chemical substances in the blood; salts of silver. Arthritis. Calcareous metastases. Diffuse metastatic processes. Ichorrhaemia. Pyaemia as a collective name.—Chemical dyscrasiae. Malignant tumours, especially cancer. Diffusion by means of contagious parenchymatous juices. | |
| LECTURE XI.—Pigmentary Elements in the Blood, Nerves. | 255 |
| Melanaemia. Its relation to melanotic tumours and colorations of the spieen.—Red blood-corpuscles. Origin. Melanic forms. Chlorosis—Paralysis of the respiratory substance. Toxicaemia.—The nervous system. Its pretended unity.—Nerve-fibres. Peripheral nerves: their fasciculi, primitive fibres, and perineurium. Axis-cylinder (electrical substance). Medullary substance (Myeline). Non-medullated and medullated fibres. Transition from the one kind to the other: hypertrophy of the optic nerve. Different breadth of the fibres. Their terminations. Pacinian and tactile bodies. |
